Software update: Nmap 4.00

Nmap is a useful program for exploring and monitoring your network. It is designed to scan a large network without delays, but it will also run smoothly on a single host. The program uses so-called ‘raw IP packets’ to find out the active hosts and the available services with all kinds of extra information. For more information about the possibilities, we refer you to this page. The developer of Insecure.org has already released Nmap 4.00 with the following changes:

Version 4.00:

• Added the ‘?’ command to the runtime interaction system. It prints a list of accepted commands. Thanks to Andrew Lutomirski (luto(a)myrealbox.com) for the patch.
• See the announcement for high level changes since 3.50.

Version 3.9999:

• Generated a new libpcre/configure to cope with changes in LibPCRE 6.4
• Updated nmap-mac-prefixes to reflect the latest OUI DB from the IEEE (http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt)
• Updated nmap protocols with the latest IEEE internet protocols assignments (http://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers).
• Updated the Nmap version number and related fields that MS Visual Studio places in the binary. This was done by editing mswin32/nmap.rc.